Time gradually passed into the afternoon.
Most of the True Persons who had come to learn what had happened had dispersed. Only the local True Person Grandmasters remained at Zeng Family Manor.
Zeng Family Manor had been destroyed, and of its two True Persons, one was dead and the other had fled. The news was enough to shake You Province.
It was no exaggeration to say that nothing this momentous had happened in You Province for over a hundred years.
Around the second quarter of the Shen hour, about half past five in the afternoon, the Heaven Lion King found the fugitive Zeng Xiaoqiang and asked him to describe what had happened.
Zeng Xiaoqiang did not recognize Pan Long. Earlier, the "One-Coin Hero" had surged with fighting spirit like a tide, his killing intent sharp as a blade. His whole being had seemed an unsheathed sword, ready at any moment to cut down evildoers. Now, Pan Long looked a little different, and his bearing had changed completely.
Pan Long's bearing was spirited and full of youthful energy. Anyone could tell at a glance that he was a young prodigy who had found success early. His power, meanwhile, had little sharpness to it. Instead, it carried a weighty solidity.
Pan Long was acting, of course. The first step in learning the Confucian School's Follow Your Heart's Desire mental art was to observe all living beings and experience their joys, anger, sorrows, and pleasures. In time, one would come to sense the distance and barriers that inevitably existed between people. From there, one could portray others outwardly and master one's own mind and soul inwardly, freely controlling one's power and changing one's bearing at will.
Duanmu Zhigong, a sage of the Confucian School, had once transformed himself into dozens of different people